Judith Mank
@judithmank.bsky.social
🧬 Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at @zoology.ubc.ca and @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief of @evolletters.bsky.social. Science with a sprinkling of dachshund pictures. https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/
Long-reads reveal 6X more guppy genes are sex-biased for splicing compared to short-reads. But male isoform richness mostly reflects transcriptional noise, not proteomic expansion. Beautiful analysis by @linley-sherin.bsky.social out now doi.org/10.64898/202...
Elevated isoform richness in males largely reflects transcriptional noise rather than proteomic complexity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.10.744030v1
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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Our new paper is out! Congrats to all involved. Dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation are maintained under relaxed selection | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation are maintained under relaxed selection | PNAS
Dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI) are key mechanisms regulating gene expression from the X chromosome in male-hete...
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🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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New study from my lab! Led by prior student Sasha Bishop, along w/ co-author @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social 🌸 We performed a resurrection study on morning glory and found that within 9 years, adaptive potential declined by 96%
A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed
Adaptive evolution is essential for populations facing rapid anthropogenic change, yet realized evolutionary responses often fall short of expectations. Us
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Sad to report that my colleague Dr. Jim Hamrick - a giant in the early study of plant population genetics, though in these 2017 photos he was contributing to the understanding of *barnacle* diversity - has passed.
If you are working on your #evol2026 schedule
Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 2mo agoMankees are headed to #Evol2026! Come see my talk- Sexual Selection Maintains Ancient Structural Polymorphisms- by Y Lin & @vdbijl.bsky.social, Tues 12PM in Sexual Selection & Recomb (Room 25A) and @jacejostles.bsky.social 's poster about Sam Snow's work on Mate Choice in the Age of AI.
So great to see @gbaucom.bsky.social 's SSE Presidential address on long- term weed evolution research program at #evol2026. She's had weeds in her sights since we were grad students together and has made such cool progress since.
"I know there's a lot of concern about the proliferation of journals, slop in the in the literature — the best way to combat this is to publish in society-owned journals." — @asn-amnat.bsky.social President @beckyfuller82.bsky.social preaching the Gospel #Evol2026
For all the crafters coming to #Evol2026👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
jacelyn@jacejostles.bsky.social · 2mo agoif you're coming to #Evol2026 in cleveland next week, bring your knitting or portable crafting and join our crafting circle! mon june 22, 1-2:30, room 26C! all welcome, eat your lunch then join us for crafting 🧶🖌️🎨
Mankees are headed to #Evol2026! Come see my talk- Sexual Selection Maintains Ancient Structural Polymorphisms- by Y Lin & @vdbijl.bsky.social, Tues 12PM in Sexual Selection & Recomb (Room 25A) and @jacejostles.bsky.social 's poster about Sam Snow's work on Mate Choice in the Age of AI.
Two melanic pigment patterns are associated with a sex chromosome-linked oncogene in the mountain swordtail Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730778v1
And the press release is at www.su.se/english/news...
Social contact gives young fish larger brains - Stockholms universitet
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Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt turns out all that screen time disrupts brain development...in guppies. Now out @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article....
It turns out all that screen time disrupts brain development...in guppies. Now out @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article....
📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Come see my talk on guppy sex chromosome evolution at the Fish 3 session on Tuesday at #CSEE2026! Back-to-back with @joellelafond.bsky.social !
Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 3mo agoMankees are headed to #CSEE2026! Check out @squarehare.bsky.social's and @joellelafond.bsky.social's talks about Poecilia sex chromosomes, and @vdbijl.bsky.social's talk about evolutionary repeatability of male colour.
Mankees are headed to #CSEE2026! Check out @squarehare.bsky.social's and @joellelafond.bsky.social's talks about Poecilia sex chromosomes, and @vdbijl.bsky.social's talk about evolutionary repeatability of male colour.
We are recruiting a PhD student in my recently established lab at the Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala! Come work with us on the evolution of alternative mating tactics in water striders!
Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University@evobiouppsala.bsky.social · 3mo agoRecruiting a PhD student on the evolution of mating behavior in water striders using deep learning behavioral tracking and brain transcriptomics. Looking for a curious, computationally strong candidate. Fully funded, 4 yr, Uppsala University. @corrallopeza.bsky.social uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I had the best time at @zoology.ubc.ca's annual Debbie and Justin Wragg-Schmidt Zoology Spring Symposium! What a privilege to be invited as their plenary speaker and I got to nerd out with so many cool people! Was lovely being back in the motherland 🇨🇦 talking about corals 🪸
We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
New MEC study led by @joellelafond.bsky.social shows that proliferation of transposable elements drives Y-chromosome degradation and facilitates dosage compensation in Poecilia picta, a guppy species 🐠 with young sex chromosomes 🧬. @wileyecology.bsky.social 🔗: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 📷: J. Lafond
🚨 My very first postdoc paper is out! 🐠 We show that the Y chromosome of the swamp guppy (Poecilia picta) has rapidly degenerated, losing genes, shrinking, and filling up with transposable elements, while the X responds by exporting key male genes to autosomes. 🧵⬇️ 1/6 📷Joëlle Lafond
Very pleased to see this out. Our new Poecilia picta genome shows rapid Y degeneration in a young XY system — rapid gene loss and Helitron accumulation, plus compensatory gene traffic to autosomes. Led by @joellelafond.bsky.social with Yuying Lin & @squarehare.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Congratulations to the two winners of this year’s SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper, Amor Damatac II and Jan Laine! Each will present their work in award talks at virtual #Evol2026! shorturl.at/RnoBQ @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social @amordamatac.bsky.social
We are pleased to recognize two Honorable Mentions for the SSE Presidents’ Award this year: Skylar Berardi and Miles Roberts for their papers in Evolution Letters! shorturl.at/CpcoY @evolletters.bsky.social
Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1
Neuronal lipid droplets play a conserved and sex-biased role in maintaining whole-body energy homeostasis - Nature Metabolism
In vivo regulation of neuronal lipid droplet formation mediates whole-body energy homeostasis in a sex-specific manner in Drosophila and mice.
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